Hollings' refusal of 9-11 widow's gun testimony triggers media attention

The Charleston Post and Courier ^ | Saturday, July 27, 2002 | Schuyler Kropf

[Mike Darancette]

I'll bet if Rosie O'Donnell wanted to come before the panel to talk against guns that the 'RATS would be falling all over themselves to hear her pearls of wisdom.

[moyden]

I say, I say, whoa they-ah little phillie. Now don't be a-filling yore purty little emotional head with big ideas, now.

Ellen Saracini

[CWRWinger]

Commercial airlines are under Federal Aviation Administration orders to install new, heavier cockpit doors by April 9, 2003. They must lock from inside the cockpit and be strong enough that terrorists can't shoot off a lock or blow up the door.

Mean while, the F-16's are ready to blow you travelers out of the sky. The people who think this stuff up are fools with inflated egoes, believing they know better than anyone else.

[Astronaut]

Hollings is the senator from Disney, owned completely by the liberals in the entertainment industry who want to abolish the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright Law. Senator Foghorn Leghorn has no time for "little people" like a 9/11 widow.

[CWRWinger]

"The door has got to be fixed".....Hollings

The Senate and Hollings Senate needs to be fixed first. It's time for him to go. The last good thing he ever did was to put the Confederate Flag on the dome. Hollings is a consistent embarassment to the people of SC. This boot-licking, heritage hating scalawag, be gone!

[goodieD]

ahem... I'm sure you meant the senator from Warner Brothers... ;)

[TiaS]

I think "to carry/not to carry" should be left to the discretion of the pilot.

[tickles]

Commercial airlines are under Federal Aviation Administration orders to install new, heavier cockpit doors by April 9, 2003. They must lock from inside the cockpit and be strong enough that terrorists can't shoot off a lock or blow up the door.>>>>>>>>>>

so how does one gain entrance if for some reason all personal inside are inconpacitated and someone needs to fly the plane? Oh I suppose they just shoot it out of the air rather then letting it try to land? (ok maybe I watched airport or whatever to many times, lol)

[JessicaDragonet]

This is the same train of though that says...if you don't want your children raped and murdered...keep them in the house 24/7. If you don't like too much graphic sex and violence on TV...too bad, turn it off! Don't want to be robbed or assaulted...then stay in the house and put bars on the windows. We are expected to live like moles while vermin walk around like they own the place!

Hollings is a gutless wonder and he wants the rest of us to follow suit.

[supercat]

so how does one gain entrance if for some reason all personal inside are inconpacitated and someone needs to fly the plane? Oh I suppose they just shoot it out of the air rather then letting it try to land? (ok maybe I watched airport or whatever to many times, lol)

More to the point, if the cockpit door really is unbreakable, then any terrorist who manages to get even momentary control of the cockpit via any means will be completely unstoppable. By contrast, if the pilot is armed and the cockpit door is of a design that takes a minute or so to break down, then even a terrorist who takes out a pilot would have to worry that once the door breaks down he's only got a certain amount of ammo--not enough bullets to stop all the attackers.

[demkicker]

"Hollings is a consistent embarassment to the people of SC."

No kidding! Conservatives in S.C. need to wake up! Hollings needs to be thrown out like the piece of garbage he is.

[cynicom]

One has to put Hollings in that group of professional politicians that should have been removed years ago.

[PJeffQ]

Senators are only up every 6 years...
word is that Charlie Condon and Bob Peeler are both considering a run at him in '04...
I heard other names too but I forget them right now...

[F.J. Mitchell]

Wheels have to be round, Hollins, this was discovered when the roads were paved. You got away with blaming the problems on the ruts in the road, Senator, but truth reveals that you are square-wheels are round. You would make a good grave stone, if ever etching tools harder than your head are invented.

[ozzymandus]

If the pubbies had any guts (wishful thinking, I know) they'd use this senile windbag as a poster boy for the congressional elections. Then again, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of slimy, traitorous, criminal RAT pols the pubs could use. If they had any guts.

[agrace]

Both of you have excellent points.